RAIL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Freightcar America | NASDAQ:RAIL)

FreightCar America Inc is a manufacturer of railcars and components, serving diverse transportation needs in North America. The company designs and produces a wide range of railcar types, including box cars, hoppers, covered hoppers, gondolas, and flat cars for both intermodal and non-intermodal freight. The company has two segments: The Manufacturing segment encompasses new railcar manufacturing, used railcar sales, leasing, and rebuilds, while the Aftermarket segment includes the selling of forged, cast and fabricated railcar parts and supplies for all railcar types, and provides aftermarket services including safety training, railcar inspections, and preventative maintenance. The company's revenue is predominantly derived from its Manufacturing segment.

Freightcar America trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol RAIL.

As of January 15, 2026, RAIL stock price declined to $11.14 with 105,563 million shares trading.

RAIL has a beta of 2.36, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. RAIL has a correlation of 0.29 to the broad based SPY ETF.

RAIL has a market cap of $212.54 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Freightcar America reported $161 million in Revenue and $.24 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.

In the last 3 years, RAIL traded as high as $16.10 and as low as $2.25.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that RAIL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VXF, IWC, EES, DFAS.

RAIL has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +3.8% while the SPY ETF gained +20.2%. However, in the short term, RAIL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +14.5% vs +4.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, RAIL shares have been beat by the market, returning +0.6% compared to an SPY return of +1.5%.

RAIL support price is $10.85 and resistance is $11.79 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that RAIL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.